New Advanced BlackbeardX Course & More

We’ve released a new update to the MantisX Pistol/Rifle app with more ways to challenge your rifle skills.

Here’s what you’ll find when you download the latest app update.

New Advanced BlackbeardX Course

Our new Advanced BlackbeardX Course is designed to push your rifle training further through 10 progressively more challenging drills.

Throughout the course, we’ll test your speed and accuracy using BlackbeardX’s auto-resetting trigger system. You’ll work through standard drills, multiple ready positions, and increasingly difficult time and score requirements.

The course also takes advantage of BlackbeardX’s dynamic training capabilities. You’ll practice getting on target quickly, making straight transitions, and improving your overall efficiency while we measure movement, transition, over-travel, and delay.

We’ve also included a unique multi-day challenge that makes it easy to rack up the shot count and establish a more consistent dry fire habit.

You can track your progress through all 10 challenges—and when you complete the course, you’ll earn the new Advanced BlackbeardX patch.

Hostage Rescue Integrated Targets 

We’ve integrated Laser Academy Hostage Rescue targets into all levels of the Hostage Rescue drills for both pistol and rifle.

You can now use either the Hostage 01 target or IPSC targets. To qualify as a successful shot, your laser must hit any zone within the target’s head box under the drill’s par time.

This gives you two ways to pass:

• • Earn a MantisX score of 85 or higher within the par time.
  • Make a good hit within the par time, even if your MantisX score is below 85. This will be marked with an asterisk (*) on the summary view.

If your shot lands in the correct target zone but exceeds the par time, it will be considered a failure. 

This update allows you to get on target and take the shot immediately instead of pausing to ensure a good trigger-press score. By combining speed and shot placement, the drill provides an experience that more closely resembles training on the range.

Using a target is optional. If you don’t enable a target, Hostage Rescue will continue to work as it did before. Enabling a target also does not change the drill’s par time.

Updated Rifle Hostage Rescue Drills

We've made intermediate and advanced drill settings to help challenge you. 

• Intermediate: Score 85 within 2 seconds
• Advanced: Score 85 within 1.5 seconds

Updated Rifle Ready Position Cones

We’ve updated the High Ready and Low Ready position cones for rifle training.

For High Ready, the rifle must now be angled upward by at least 20 degrees. For Low Ready, the rifle must be angled downward by at least 20 degrees.

These updated parameters create clearer expectations for each starting position and help ensure that you’re training from a properly defined High or Low Ready.

Update your app and start training.